Yet No One Hears His Own Remarks

Every American Poet Feels That The Whole Responsibility For Contemporary Poetry Has Fallen Upon His Shoulders, That He Is A Literary Aristocracy Of One.

In Addition To English, At Least One Ancient Language, Probably Greek Or Hebrew, And Two Modern Languages Would Be Required.

God May Reduce You On Judgment Day To Tears Of Shame, Reciting By Heart The Poems You Would Have Written, Had Your Life Been Good.

Pleasure Is By No Means An Infallible Critical Guide, But It Is The Least Fallible.

The Commonest Ivory Tower Is That Of The Average Man, The State Of Passivity Towards Experience.